[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain]

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-However, in my view, this still is not infinite precision in the sense of that 
$2^(-35) + 2^34$ will not compute exactly because the system does not 
*automatically* increase precision in 'FLOAT' (it won't, even using macros).  
But one *can* compute it by *manually* increasing the precision (which 
precision is by no means obvious). Compare this with 'FRAC INT' where there is 
no need to manually increase the length of integers in numerators or 
denominators. Floating point systems are designed to compute only significant 
digits.
However, in my view, this still is not infinite precision in the sense of that 
$2^{(-35)} + 2^{34}$ will not compute exactly because the system does not 
*automatically* increase precision in 'FLOAT' (it won't, even using macros).  
But one *can* compute it by *manually* increasing the precision (which 
precision is by no means obvious). Compare this with 'FRAC INT' where there is 
no need to manually increase the length of integers in numerators or 
denominators. Floating point systems are designed to compute only significant 
digits.

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